I used to teach at a private school, and the parents thought I loved their children. I did not love their children! I liked them well enough, but I was always delighted to see them go off for summer vacation.

If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.

It can be demonstrated from history that no society has ever survived after its family life deteriorated.

Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.

I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.

Becoming a woman is an act partly of nature and partly of self-invention.